Day 9 Matthew 2:3 I can be a child of God, be a follower of Jesus for years, and yet some days I can live as if he’s not there. “Let this Christmas be the time when you consider the Messiah and ponder what it is to worship him.” Day 5-8
Day 5 Luke 2:6-7 This is my favorite advent devotional so far. Jesus did not take any detours to Calvary. “For your sake he became poor.” (2 Cor 8:9) “Now if you would think that if God so rules the world…, he surely could have seen to it that a room was available in the inn…The […]
Day 4 Luke 2:1-5 God moves world affairs in order to fulfill his plan in the lives of two unknown ordinary people. He can both macro manage the world and micro manage my life. “For it is implicit in Scripture that all the mammoth political forces and all the giant industrial complexes, without them even […]
I started on December 1 to meditate on a daily advent devotional, following John Piper’s plan. Here are some of my thoughts. Day 1 Luke 1:16-17 Focusing on Jesus is not as easy as it seems. I am too familiar with the Christmas account that it has lost some of the grandeur and awe for me. […]